[lug] Time (again) sanity check

[Gary Hodges]

Gary Hodges wrote:
> I had to postpone my search for a WWVB or GPS time solution, but as luck 
> would have it the folks running the time server (the one with incorrect 
> time) said they would fix it.  They now claim it has the correct time, 
> but I can't seem to set my computer time correctly with it.  So, before 
> I tell them they still don't have it set correctly, I wanted to run the 
> results of ntpdate and ntpq by this list to make sure I'm doing things 
> correctly.
> 
> hodges at machine:~$ sudo ntpdate 151.61.251.231
> 25 Jun 12:10:41 ntpdate[2727]: adjust time server 151.61.251.231 offset 
> 0.003570 sec
> 
> hodges at machine:~$ ntpq -p
>      remote           refid      st t when poll reach   delay   offset 
>  jitter
> ============================================================================== 
> 
>  mach.nv.doe.go 151.61.251.233   2 u   26   64    5    6.862    0.174 
> 11.644
> 
> Note that my machine is consistently 1 min 16 sec fast.  Also, while I 
> have changed the IPs and machine names, I left the last octets intact. I 
> have "server 151.61.251.231" in ntp.conf, but it shows up as .233 with 
> "ntpq -p".

I hate self replies.  In the time between posting and it showing up, I 
fielded a call that indicated they have yet to fix the time on the time 
server.